culture
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6 Things We Care About More Than Beyoncé’s Feminism
If you’re reading this, you have an Internet connection. And because you have said connection, then you are undoubtedly aware that Beyoncé Knowles released an album out of nowhere last week on Friday. For the better part of the last 96 hours, the Internet has been going HAM about Beyoncé, the person and super-secret album…
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TMZ Poll: ‘African American’ or ‘N–ga’?
Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight told TMZ that he is offended when people call him African American because he isn’t African. Knight said that the term is offensive to black people, TMZ reports. But Knight didn’t stop there, and neither did TMZ. Knight explained that he didn’t understand the controversy surrounding the word…
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No One Wants Michael Jordan’s Old House
Even after a modest price reduction, the house that was once home to arguably the greatest player ever to grace the hardwood is still for sale. Michael Jordan’s 56,000-square-foot home in suburban Chicago has failed to sell at auction after the bidding fell short, according to the Associated Press. The 7-acre estate in Highland Park,…
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Charges Against NY Duo Dropped After ‘Cocaine’ Is Found to Be Soap
Charges have been dropped against a New York pair after tests showed that the 2 kilograms of cocaine they were said to possess was shown to be homemade soap. Annadel Cruz, 26, and her passenger, Alexander Bernstein, spent almost a month in jail after being pulled over on an interstate in Pennsylvania for driving 5…
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Phony Interpreter Allegedly Part of Group That Burned Men to Death
The controversy surrounding the interpreter who used bogus sign language at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service is not quite yet over. Thamsanqa Jantjie was allegedly part of a group of people who burned two men to death after they were caught with a stolen television, the Associated Press reports. According to a relative of Jantjie’s and…
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Melissa Harris-Perry Has Some Tough Questions for Santa
Melissa Harris-Perry has some tough questions for the bearded man from the North Pole. “I know it’s a busy time of year, but we need to settle a little debate that’s emerged in American media asking, ‘Are you white? Are you black? When you come in from the North Pole, do you have a legal…
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New Mexico Teacher Disciplined for Racist Santa Remarks
A New Mexico high school teacher is under fire for reportedly telling a black teen that he could not dress as Santa because old St. Nick is white, KOB-4 reports. Officials at Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, about 15 miles north of Albuquerque, N.M., said Friday that the teacher was disciplined for his comments…
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SNL Spoofs ‘Fake’ Interpreter at Nelson Mandela Memorial
Saturday Night Live could not pass up the opportunity to satirize the sign language interpreter who was roundly criticized for his questionable performance at Nelson Mandela’s memorial last week. Posing as the so-called interpreter, Thamsanqa Jantjie, Kenan Thompson gesticulated wildly during the show’s opening as Jay Pharaoh’s unflappable President Barack Obama delivered a speech. “I…
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Yes, Megyn, There Is a Black Santa Claus
For nearly a decade, Langston Patterson has donned a red Santa suit while greeting squealing fans at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. The only thing that sets him apart from some other Santas around the country is that he’s black. So, yes, Megyn Kelly, there is a…
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NFL Player Jovan Belcher’s Body Exhumed for Brain Exam
In an effort to find signs of brain damage from repeated concussions, the family of former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher has requested the exhumation of his body a year after he killed his girlfriend and himself, USA Today reports. The family’s attorney, Dirk Vandever, said that Belcher’s body was exhumed Friday at North…